Since February 2022, courts in the occupied Crimea have handed down at least 260 sentences for refusing to serve in the occupier's army

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, courts in the occupied Crimea have sentenced at least 260 local residents for attempts to evade service in the Russian army.

This is reported by "Tribunal. Crimean Episode".

Such conclusions were reached by the Tribunal's analysts based on the results of the analysis of court registers, the report says.

According to human rights activists, every four days the security forces sent to court one criminal case against "evaders". In only 6 cases is it known that the courts decided to terminate the criminal cases. During the thousand days of full-scale war, the courts considered almost as many cases as during the previous eight years of occupation of the peninsula. According to the Crimean Human Rights Group, 281 criminal cases were registered at the beginning of 2021.

We remind you that a former Crimean judge was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She passed judgments against Ukrainian citizens for political reasons, in particular, she convicted Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian activists. The former judge was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The verdict was passed in absentia, and she will serve her sentence after being detained. According to the Center for Investigative Journalism, this is Iryna Erokhina, who, after the occupation of Crimea by Russia, violated her judicial oath and began working in an illegally created Russian court.

Also, Intent wrote that after the occupation of the peninsula, former judges of the Chornomorsk District and Economic Courts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea betrayed their oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and joined the enemy.

According to the prosecutor's office, one of the judges took a position in the "Arbitration Court of the Republic of Crimea" and the other in the "Black Sea District Court of the Republic of Crimea". In their positions, they administered "justice" on behalf of the aggressor state. By their actions and decisions, the convicts contributed to the establishment and strengthening of the occupation judiciary on the peninsula, as well as assisted representatives of the Russian Federation in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.

In court, prosecutors proved that after the occupation of the peninsula, the convicts betrayed their oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and joined the enemy. Therefore, under the public prosecution of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, former judges of the Chornomorsk District and Economic Courts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were sentenced in absentia. They were found guilty of committing high treason and sentenced to 12 and 13 years of imprisonment respectively.

Earlier, four former judges from Crimea, who had joined the enemy, were sentenced in absentia under public prosecution by the autonomy's prosecutor's office. They were found guilty of treason and sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Also, an occupation judge who had been prosecuting Ukrainians in Crimea was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason.

Ігор Льов